Cornyn's Attack Dog
Via Burnt Orange Report we learn that a member of Texas Republican Senator, John Cornyn's office, has been, basically an Internet troll:
Longtime readers know that in order to register to comment on the site, you must set up an account and provide an email address. It's a way to ensure accountability and prevent abuse in our community. However, we sometimes still have problems with abusive users that create sock puppet accounts to harass and intimidate writers and other commenters.
Many of you have become familiar with user Buck Smith's abusive comments that troll the site, attack and personally insult users and writers, and impugn the integrity of our community, our Democratic candidates and our Democratic values.
We have a policy that our commenters have helped enforce that requires us to disclose our jobs and who pays us. Our commenters have done the same. When political consultants or staffers post on this site, we know who they are and where they are coming from, ensuring that no false representation is being had.
When a staffer for Lt. Col. Noriega made a dumb mistake and falsely represented himself as a blogger to the Cornyn campaign, he was rightfully excoriated. When a Democratic consultant created an anonymous website, he was rightfully questioned. In 2007, user Buck Smith began posting on this and other sites, mainly on threads involving Lt. Col. Rick Noriega or Sen. John Cornyn. He attacked diarists and commenters and provided pro-Cornyn spin on many items. In the interest of full disclosure, and in order to keep everything fair, and since Buck Smith has not disclosed who he is, we thought we would clue you in that he is David Beckwith, John Cornyn's senior staffer.
As David Mauro at BOR found out, Beckwith has spent considerable time trolling BOR, and presumably other sites, on the taxpayer's dime.
I have no doubt that Cornyn will get right on fixing this up.
Vince at Capitol Annex has a lot more.
No matter how much Cornyn or Beckwith tries to deny it, Beckwith is a sockpuppet and an Internet troll.
Such high standards.
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